1906.] NEW AFRICAN CUKCULIONIB.E. 945 



Colour ferruginous brown, scaling on thorax dark fawn on disc 

 and paler at the sides, scaling on elytra dark fawn variegated 

 w^ith dark brown marbling and spots of white or pale fawn. 



Head globose, closely punctured, with fawn-coloiu'ed scaling 

 above ; eyes comparatively small in 5 1 distinctly larger and 

 closer together in c^ . Rostrum elongate, moderately stout, 

 strongly and regularly curved throughout, rufo-testaceous, bai'e, 

 mandibles black ; in S strongly sti'igoso-]3unctate in basal half, 

 apical half shiny and minutely punctured ; much longer in $ , 

 strigoso-j)unctate to only one-fourth from base, apical half im- 

 punctate. Antenoice comparatively short, testaceous, with the 

 club fuscous, inserted slightly behind middle in $ and slightly 

 beyond middle in d ; terminal joints of funicle short, scarcely 

 longer than broad ; club short ovate, the two basal joints trans- 

 verse and ti'ansversely truncate, the second joint being quadrate. 

 Prothorax transverse, sides strongly rounded, broadest behind 

 middle, constricted at apex ; uppei- surface with fine reticulate 

 punctuation and a faint short central carina ; scaling dense, dark 

 fawn on disk, with sides and a spot in front of scutellum paler, 

 prosternum white in the middle and dark brown laterally. 

 Elytra ovate, broadest at shoulders, which are roundly prominent, 

 sides slightly rounded and rapidly narrowed to apex, the sti-iee 

 fine but distinctly punctured, the intervals plane and coriaceous ; 

 scaling moderately dense, fawn-coloured, marbled with dark 

 brown and with scattei'ed white or yellowish spots ; scutellum 

 white ; under parts with rather thin whitish or yellowish scaling 

 and a denser patch on the mesosteiiial epimera and at the apex 

 of the metasternal epistei'na. Legs testaceous, with fairly dense 

 yellowish scaling ; all femora armed with a stout simple tooth ; 

 tibife distinctly uncinate. 



Mashonaland : Salisburj^ {G. A. K. M.). 



Types, $ in British Museum, S in Oxford Museum. 



Found on a species of wild fig. 



Balaninus aurivillii, sp. nov. 



Long. 4|-4i, lat. 2i-2i mm. Rostrum J 2i-2|, 5 4-4f mm. 



Colour ferruginous, evenly covered with creamy white or pale 

 yellow scales and with a broad transverse band of denser scaling 

 on the elyti'a, behind middle, varying from pale to bright 

 yellow. 



Head globose, with dense creamy scaling above and below^ ; 

 eyes large, scarcely smaller in the 5 . Rostrum elongate, very 

 slender, dark ferruginous ; in S , subporrect to beyond middle, 

 thence curved to apex, strigoso-punctate in the basal half and 

 vSquamose close to base, apical half shiny and minutely punctvired ; 

 in 5 , porrect for four-fifths of its length, then sharply curved 

 downwards, base shiny and impunctate throughout. Antennce 

 elongate, slender, testaceous, with the club fuscous, inserted 

 beyond middle in S and well behind middle in 5 ; terminal 

 joints of funicle elongate, sublinear, 6 and 7 equal in length and 



